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The first screen should tell a restaurant prospect what you do, where you work, what the next step is, and why they can trust the page enough to keep reading.
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A restaurant website that takes bookings, lists the full menu with dietary filters, keeps kitchen hours separate from opening hours, and sends traffic to your Google Business profile.
Start Your Restaurants Site →Why this site mattersWhat a restaurant site
What a restaurant site
is really doing.
Restaurant websites have one job: turn a hungry browser into a booking.
Your customer is comparing menus, checking dietary options, looking for availability, and deciding where to eat before their attention moves on.
Every site I build for restaurants is engineered around that one action — reservation CTAs, full HTML menus, dietary filters, kitchen hours, private dining pages, and Google profile links all working together to secure the booking.
Growth industryMake the Enquiry
Make the Enquiry
Obvious.
Brief focus
I'd scope the site around four decisions: what a visitor needs to see before they trust you, the action that should be easiest on mobile, the pages that deserve to exist for search, the proof you genuinely have and the proof you still need to collect. That keeps the page practical rather than decorative.
Choose a planClaim safety
I can describe what a strong restaurant site needs. I won't claim I've shipped client results in this industry unless the facts file supports it.
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Reservation integration
OpenTable, ResDiary, SevenRooms, or a simple in-house form. I embed the widget so customers book without leaving your site, and I track bookings as conversions in analytics. If you're taking walk-ins only, I build a clear 'Walk-in only, no bookings' message in the hero so nobody wastes a form submission.
Full menu with dietary filters
Your menu as HTML, split by course. Every dish tagged with vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, dairy-free, nut-free where applicable. A filter bar at the top lets a customer toggle their requirement and see only what they can order. I keep the tags in a simple sheet so updates are a two-minute job.
Opening and kitchen hours, separate
Two lines on the contact page: front-of-house hours ('Open 12 to 11') and kitchen hours ('Food served 12 to 9.30, 6 to 10 on weekends'). Both marked up as schema so Google can read them. This single detail saves you the phone calls asking whether you're still serving.
Hero imagery that loads fast
A full-bleed hero image of your best dish or dining room. I serve it as a modern format (AVIF or WebP) and preload it so it's the first thing a customer sees. Restaurant sites live and die on that first impression. I test the image weight so it stays under 150KB on mobile.
Private dining and events page
A dedicated page for private hire: capacity, set-menu options, minimum spend, and a form that asks for date, party size, and dietaries. These bookings are higher-value and they come from different traffic than walk-ins. A proper page picks them up instead of losing them to Google.
Delivery and Google Business linkage
Deliveroo, Uber Eats, and Just Eat buttons in the hero and footer. Your Google Business profile linked prominently so reviews stay front-of-mind. I make sure your site's address, phone, and hours match your Google listing exactly, which helps local ranking.
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Your restaurant
Reservation integration
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How I build itMy process
My process
for restaurants.
Starter is £250 delivered in 10 working days. For a restaurant that covers a homepage with hero and menu preview, a full menu page with filters, a contact page with map and hours, and a reservation embed. You send menu, photos, and booking details. I draft, you review, we launch.
I build on Next.js and host on Vercel, so page loads stay fast even when a lunch rush of customers hits the site at once. Images are optimised automatically. I set up Google Search Console and submit the sitemap on launch day.
If you want a full booking system we own (not third-party), a gift-card shop, or a loyalty programme, that's Business at £400 or Growth at £1,000. Every quote is fixed.
What to avoidCommon
Common
Mistakes.
Most restaurant sites hide the menu behind a 'Menu' tab that nobody taps. Put menu highlights on the homepage, and make the full menu one click away from every page. Customers pick you on the menu, not on your mission statement.
The other common error is an auto-playing video hero that weighs 30MB. It looks great on your laptop and kills your mobile traffic. A single well-shot still beats a video 95 percent of the time, and the site stays under two seconds to first paint.
Common questions
Restaurants FAQ.
For most systems, yes, though the depth depends on the POS. Square, Lightspeed, and Toast all have public APIs I can use. Integrations are usually a Business or Growth plan job because they need testing against your live data. I'll scope it honestly before quoting.
I set up a Google Sheet that the site reads from. You edit the sheet, the site updates in under a minute. No login, no CMS to learn. For seasonal restaurants this is the single most useful thing I build.
I can sharpen them, but the voice has to come from you or your chef. I'll ask for a first draft and then edit for length and rhythm. A web designer writing 'pan-seared' when you'd say 'crispy-skin' is a bad trade.
A little, but I load it lazily so it only downloads when a customer actually interacts with it. The rest of the page stays fast. This is the standard way to embed third-party widgets without tanking your Core Web Vitals.
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Website, Sorted.
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